Nobel prize winners

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Wed, 10/07/2009 - 04:50

roos.14

Joined: 12/14/2008

so here's the complete list. Never mind the two last words after every author, it's just the country of origin and the language they wrote in, but in swedish.

1901 Sully Prudhomme
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904 Frédéric Mistral Frankrike Occitanska
José Echegaray Spanien Spanska
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz Polen Polska
1906 Giosuè Carducci Italien Italienska
1907 Rudyard Kipling Storbritannien Engelska
1908 Rudolf Eucken Tyskland Tyska
1909 Selma Lagerlöf Sverige Svenska
1910 Paul Heyse Tyskland Tyska
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Belgien Franska
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann Tyskland Tyska
1913 Rabindranath Tagore Indien Bengali/engelska
1914 Inget pris utdelades (a)
1915 Romain Rolland Frankrike Franska
1916 Verner von Heidenstam Sverige Svenska
1917 Karl Gjellerup Danmark Danska
Henrik Pontoppidan Danmark Danska
1918 Inget pris utdelades (a)
1919 Carl Spitteler Schweiz Tyska
1920 Knut Hamsun Norge Norska
1921 Anatole France Frankrike Franska
1922 Jacinto Benavente Spanien Spanska
1923 William Butler Yeats Irland Engelska
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont Polen Polska
1925 George Bernard Shaw Irland Engelska
1926 Grazia Deledda Italien Italienska
1927 Henri Bergson Frankrike Franska
1928 Sigrid Undset Norge Norska
1929 Thomas Mann Tyskland Tyska
1930 Sinclair Lewis USA Engelska
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt (postumt) Sverige Svenska
1932 John Galsworthy Storbritannien Engelska
1933 Ivan Bunin Sovjetunionen (i exil) Ryska
1934 Luigi Pirandello Italien Italienska
1935 Inget pris utdelades ( Glasses
1936 Eugene O'Neill USA Engelska
1937 Roger Martin du Gard Frankrike Franska
1938 Pearl Buck USA Engelska
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää Finland Finska
1940 Inget pris utdelades ( Glasses
1941 Inget pris utdelades ( Glasses
1942 Inget pris utdelades ( Glasses
1943 Inget pris utdelades ( Glasses
1944 Johannes V. Jensen Danmark Danska
1945 Gabriela Mistral Chile Spanska
1946 Hermann Hesse Tyskland/Schweiz Tyska
1947 André Gide Frankrike Franska
1948 T.S. Eliot USA/Storbritannien Engelska
1949 William Faulkner USA Engelska
1950 Bertrand Russell Storbritannien Engelska
1951 Pär Lagerkvist Sverige Svenska
1952 François Mauriac Frankrike Franska
1953 Winston Churchill Storbritannien Engelska
1954 Ernest Hemingway USA Engelska
1955 Halldór Kiljan Laxness Island Isländska
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez Spanien Spanska
1957 Albert Camus Frankrike Franska
1958 Boris Pasternak (tackade nej) Sovjetunionen Ryska
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo Italien Italienska
1960 Saint-John Perse Frankrike Franska
1961 Ivo Andric Jugoslavien Serbokroatiska
1962 John Steinbeck USA Engelska
1963 Giorgos Seferis Grekland Nygrekiska
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre (tackade nej) Frankrike Franska
1965 Michail Sjolochov Sovjetunionen Ryska
1966 Samuel Agnon Israel Hebreiska
Nelly Sachs Tyskland/Sverige Tyska
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias Guatemala Spanska
1968 Yasunari Kawabata Japan Japanska
1969 Samuel Beckett Irland Franska/engelska
1970 Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Sovjetunionen Ryska
1971 Pablo Neruda Chile Spanska
1972 Heinrich Böll Västtyskland Tyska
1973 Patrick White Australien Engelska
1974 Eyvind Johnson Sverige Svenska
Harry Martinson Sverige Svenska
1975 Eugenio Montale Italien Italienska
1976 Saul Bellow Kanada/USA Engelska
1977 Vicente Aleixandre Spanien Spanska
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer Polen/USA Jiddisch
1979 Odysseus Elytis Grekland Nygrekiska
1980 Czeslaw Milosz Polen/USA Polska
1981 Elias Canetti Bulgarien/Storbritannien/Schweiz Tyska
1982 Gabriel García Márquez Colombia Spanska
1983 William Golding Storbritannien Engelska
1984 Jaroslav Seifert Tjeckoslovakien Tjeckiska
1985 Claude Simon Frankrike Franska
1986 Wole Soyinka Nigeria Engelska
1987 Joseph Brodsky Sovjetunionen/USA Ryska/engelska
1988 Naguib Mahfouz Egypten Arabiska
1989 Camilo José Cela Spanien Spanska
1990 Octavio Paz Mexiko Spanska
1991 Nadine Gordimer Sydafrika Engelska
1992 Derek Walcott Saint Lucia Engelska
1993 Toni Morrison USA Engelska
1994 Kenzaburo Oe Japan Japanska
1995 Seamus Heaney Irland Engelska
1996 Wisława Szymborska Polen Polska
1997 Dario Fo Italien Italienska
1998 José Saramago Portugal Portugisiska
1999 Günter Grass Tyskland Tyska
2000 Gao Xingjian Kina/Frankrike Kinesiska
2001 V.S. Naipaul Trinidad och Tobago/Storbritannien Engelska
2002 Imre Kertész Ungern Ungerska
2003 J.M. Coetzee Sydafrika Engelska
2004 Elfriede Jelinek Österrike Tyska
2005 Harold Pinter Storbritannien Engelska
2006 Orhan Pamuk Turkiet Turkiska
2007 Doris Lessing Storbritannien Engelska
2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Frankrike Franska

so which ones of these have you guys read? whcih ones do you recommend?

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Wed, 10/07/2009 - 05:21

mikandrewz

From: Chigaco

Joined: 01/05/2003

1920 Knut Hamsun
1957 Albert Camus
1962 John Steinbeck (but only Of Mice and Men)
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
1968 Yasunari Kawabata
1994 Kenzaburo Oe

Haha, that makes me feel bad. Knut Hamson wrote Hunger, a great book about being a writer, he was like a predecessor to people like Fante and Bukowski. The only thing I've read by Kawabata is a collection of short stories, they were quite terse and beautiful. Oe writes modern existentialism which I think went over my head a bit. My favourite of those are Camus and Sartre, in particularly Sartre's Roads To Freedom trilogy.

Other's on the list that I really want to read- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) and José Saramago (Blindness).

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Wed, 10/07/2009 - 05:23

Imke

Cyborg Bette

From: Europe

Joined: 06/22/2008

Knut Hamsun - Hunger/Sult

Pretty sure that's the only one.

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Wed, 10/07/2009 - 09:16

Kerplunk

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From: Limeyland

Joined: 07/21/2009

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
and Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row and East of Eden by, one of my favourite authors, John Steinbeck.

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Wed, 10/07/2009 - 10:17

nathaniel parker

Sprung

From: Outer spiral arm of Milky Way

Joined: 06/24/2005

Rudyard Kipling, Knut Hamsun, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, John Steinbeck
I'd recommend all of them, but I'd recommend Knut Hamsun above all others.

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 11:51

ScarecrowJack

From: London

Joined: 04/03/2008

I'm reading Gunter Grass' "The Tin Drum" which is damn good, but then I would say that, being such a fan of mute dwarfs.

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 12:13

nathaniel parker

Sprung

From: Outer spiral arm of Milky Way

Joined: 06/24/2005

Knut Hamsun's Mysteries has a dwarf. A midget really. Only he's more of a hunchback than a midget, I'd say. And also he's not mute. Still...good book.

Wed, 10/07/2009 - 12:23

ScarecrowJack

From: London

Joined: 04/03/2008

nathaniel parker wrote:

Knut Hamsun's Mysteries has a dwarf. A midget really. Only he's more of a hunchback than a midget, I'd say. And also he's not mute. Still...good book.

Sold!

Thu, 10/08/2009 - 09:42

roos.14

Joined: 12/14/2008

2009 winner: Herta Müller. German speaking female author from Romania. Anyone heard of her?

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"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."

"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"

Thu, 10/08/2009 - 09:57

big S

He can't hear... Can you, you big fox-hunting, badger baiting, tweed-shirt bumfuck homophobe?

From: TX

Joined: 03/30/2004

i've read pearl buck. my mom made me read her books when i was in homeschool.

Thu, 10/08/2009 - 12:37

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RazorSharp

From: Ohio

Joined: 06/30/2009

1946 Hermann Hesse
1954 Ernest Hemingway
1957 Albert Camus
1962 John Steinbeck
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre
1983 William Golding

I also have multiple books by Pearl S. Buck and William Faulkner but I haven't read any of them yet Sad

I've also read stuff by Churchill and Eliot but those would be speeches/poems.

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Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:10

#11

tron77

From: Chicagoland

Joined: 04/18/2009

Read Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Your life will be better as a result.

Fri, 10/09/2009 - 12:02

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nathaniel parker

Sprung

From: Outer spiral arm of Milky Way

Joined: 06/24/2005

I heard Obama won one. I'm not sure for which autobiography of his won it though.

Fri, 10/09/2009 - 12:06

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mikandrewz

From: Chigaco

Joined: 01/05/2003

Oh for fuck sake, the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been given to a group of people "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". Why don't they just change the name to the Nobel Prize for Biology and get it over with.

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Sat, 10/10/2009 - 08:11

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roos.14

Joined: 12/14/2008

nathaniel parker wrote:

I heard Obama won one. I'm not sure for which autobiography of his won it though.

He won the nobel peace prize. Not that he has created any peace since he became president though. But I guess everyone looks good in comparison with George W Bush...

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"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."

"Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne dass er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet"

Sat, 10/10/2009 - 18:29

#15

ScarecrowJack

From: London

Joined: 04/03/2008

Incidentally, because people deeply care about what I'm reading, Le Clézio is damn good. I'm reading the short stories in "Fever".

Well Jack, did you read him because of his reputation, and because you strive for the new and tantalising in world literature?

NO! I'd never heard of him before his Nobel win. This is how I achieve sophistication. I paid £8.99 for my culture.

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 11:05

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mikandrewz

From: Chigaco

Joined: 01/05/2003

Haha, at least you bought the book new! I'm getting my Swedish Academy-approved literature secondhand on amazon. And even then I'm not willing to spend the time researching the authors that I've never heard of, I'm waiting for people in this thread to make recommendations. I'm such a cretin.

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